This forum aims to improve the speed, validity, knowledge translation, and public health impact of opioid simulation modeling efforts to reduce fatal overdoses and injection-related transmission of HCV, and HIV in North America.

The session, "Addressing Public Health Data Gaps," is chaired by Eli Rosenberg, Deputy Director for Science, in the Office of Public Health, at the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Albany.

Panelists include:
Amanda Slaunwhite, PhD, Provincial Overdose Cohort at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC
Angélica Ospina-Escobar, PhD, CIDE-Central Region, Mexico City
Allan Clear, New York State Department of Health, New York, NY

Funding for the OUD Modeling Consortium made possible (in part) by R13DA052198 and the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH, P30DA040500) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.